To whom it may concern:
 
After I installed a new linux system(RedHat_Enterprise_Linux_AS3 ), I have gcc 3.2.3 and libxslt 1.0.33. Then I installed icc and iff(10.1) and downloaded boost(1.34.1), alps(1.3) ,alps-applications(1.3), lp_solve(4.0) to /root/src/. After unzipped them, I have installed ALPS and alps-applications to my computer.
 
And now when I use parameter2xml to convert task.txt to task.xml, I met error just like alps_para2xml_error.JPG. The error information is Caught exception: parameter parse error at "[L*SWEEPS]; { L=10; T=0.1; } {"
 
If I use the job.in.xml and parm.task1.in.xml of ALPS website, I also do not know how to use the alps-applications to get the result.  I use "$HOME/ALPS/bin/main job.in.xml "(from the website at http://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki-1.9.3/index.php/Tutorial:RunningSimulations ), but there is the error information about "No such file or directory".
 
Please help me. Thank you very much. With best regards.
 
The contents of task.txt, job.in.xml and  parm.task1.in.xml are form the website at http://alps.comp-phys.org/mediawiki-1.9.3/index.php/Tutorial:RunningSimulations.
 
task.txt
 MODEL="Ising";
 SWEEPS=1000;
 THERMALIZATION=100; 
 WORK_FACTOR=[L*SWEEPS];
 { L=10; T=0.1; }
 { L=20; T=0.05; }
 
job.in.xml
<JOB>
 <OUTPUT file="parm.xml"/>
 <TASK status="new">
   <INPUT file="parm.task1.in.xml"/>
   <OUTPUT file="parm.task1.xml"/>
 </TASK> 
</JOB>
 
parm.task1.in.xml
<SIMULATION>
 <PARAMETERS>
   <PARAMETER name="L">100</PARAMETER>
   <PARAMETER name="SWEEPS">10000</PARAMETER>
   <PARAMETER name="T">0.5</PARAMETER>
   <PARAMETER name="THERMALIZATION">100</PARAMETER>
   <PARAMETER name="WORK_FACTOR">SWEEPS * L</PARAMETER>
 </PARAMETERS> 
</SIMULATION>
 
 
 
 
Yours Sincerely.
dulei
2008-03-13